However, shortly after the birth of their identical twin daughters, Annie and Hallie (both played by Lindsay Lohan), they get divorced and each has sole custody of one girl Nick raises Hallie in Napa Valley, California and Elizabeth raises Annie in London, England.Īlmost twelve years later in the summer of 1998, Nick and Elizabeth coincidentally send their daughters to the same summer camp, where they meet and take an immediate dislike to one another. In 1986, American winery owner Nicholas 'Nick' Parker ( Dennis Quaid) and British wedding gown designer Elizabeth James ( Natasha Richardson) get married over the course of a transatlantic crossing on the Queen Elizabeth 2.
